NOTE: THE DEFINING
GENERATION is a project begun by Doug and Pam Sterner in 2002 and
completed in 2006. Initially is was prepared for publication as a book,
however with their changing focus to development of a database of military
awards, was postponed indefinitely so they could concentrate on that
larger, more important work. The stories found herein however, need to be
shared, and they have consented to make this compilation available in this
format. While each story can stand alone, it is recommended that for
continuity, readers will be best served by reading the chapters
sequentially from first to last.

The Defining
Generation

-

Defining the Future
of Politics

James Henry Webb

"The political tactic of
playing up the soldiers on the battlefield while tearing down the
reputations of veterans who oppose them could eventually cost the
Republicans dearly. It may be one reason that a preponderance of
the Iraq war veterans who thus far have decided to run for office
are doing so as Democrats."

Senator James Webb

Mention
the terms "politician" and "Vietnam Veteran" to most
Americans and they will easily come up with two names: Anti-war veteran
Senator John Kerry and former-POW Senator John McCain. In fact there are
two others often overlooked, Democrat Senator Thomas Carper of
Delaware
and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of
Nebraska
. These four, along with a junior Senator elected in 2006 comprise five of
the nine combat veterans in the U.S. Senate--the other four are all
veterans of service in World War II.

There
was a time, basically from the early 1800s until the 1980s, when military
service was almost a pre-requisite for political office. Of the 43 men who
have been elected President, 25 can claim veterans status and most were
veterans of combat. From the end of World War II until the election of
Bill Clinton in 1992 EVERY one of our nine presidents had served in the
military in some capacity. In the 8 elections since the end of the Vietnam
War only four veterans of that conflict have been serious contenders for
the Presidency and only two, Democrat Senators Albert Gore and John Kerry
served in
Vietnam
.*

Elections
have dealt no better a hand to veterans of the Defining Generation in the
halls of Congress. In the aftermath of World War II and through the end of
the Vietnam War, the majority of legislators in both houses were military
veterans. In the 110th Congress only 31 members of the Senate, less than a
third, have any personal ties to the military (including National Guard
and Reserve status) and only ten (excluding the 5 combat veterans) claim
Vietnam era or post-Vietnam service. On the whole, World War II and Korean
era veterans outnumber those of our younger generation. Figures for
members of the House of Representatives are equally dismal with regards to
veteran representation.

For
veterans of the war that divided our nation the decision to run for public
office seems today to be a minefield with hidden dangers; as it was in
Vietnam one's enemies are often hard to distinguish from one's friends.
The Internet abounds with articles written by veterans calling into
question the loyalty and sacrifice of Senator John McCain and, despite the
admiration of other POWs like Medal of Honor Recipient George Bud
Day, he has consistently failed to get a consolidated loyal following from
the veterans community in general. Former Republican Vice President Dan
Quayle's National Guard Service during the Vietnam War era was belittled
in no small measure by veterans of that war when he tried to capture the
2000 Presidential nomination of his party. During that same year Democrat
nominee Senator Albert Gore, who did serve in Vietnam, was placed under a
microscope and his service denigrated by some who claimed that as the son
of a sitting Senator, he had received preferential treatment in Vietnam.

It
is almost as if that war failed to produce the perfect political
candidate. In 1992 Senator Robert Kerry of
Nebraska
, a Medal of Honor recipient who lost a leg in
Vietnam
, saw his service called into question. Unable to attack his valor on the
battlefield, he was accused of committing atrocities in 1969 when he led a
Swift Boat raid on the isolated peasant
village
of
Thanh Phong
. Twelve years later Senator John Kerry became the subject of scrutiny and
the veterans community largely turned against him because decades earlier
he had claimed that atrocities were being committed by American troops in
Vietnam
.

Three
decades after the Vietnam War ended the
United States
was at war in a situation that, if nothing else, mirrored the Vietnam War
years for the divisiveness of the cause back home. Going into the off-year
election of 2006, by the end of October it was obvious that anti-war
Democrats would most likely triumph to take control of the U.S. House of
Representatives. It was almost unthinkable that they could also capture
the Senate, but remained within the realm of possibility. The balance of
power seemed to hinge upon the Senate race in
Virginia
where former governor and now incumbent Republican Senator George Allen
faced a challenger in a race "too close to call" on election
day. The race was in fact so tight that it took two days before a victor
could be declared. When the dust settled the winner who ultimately tipped
the scales to give Democrats a majority in both houses was a Democrat,
turned Republican, turned Democrat. Sometimes described as a complicated
man to understand, he is actually a quite simple person to those who knew
him best. He was not a chameleon who changed to blend in with his
surroundings but rather, was a man for whom principle took precedence over
politics and for whom personal responsibility was more important than
party affiliation.

James
Henry "Jim" Webb is
a born fighter who takes great pride in his Scots-Irish roots and authored
a book in 2004 titled: Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped
America. In it he details with pride how his ancestors have fought in
every war in our Nation's history. Jim was born on
February 9, 1946
, a true "baby boomer." His father James Henry Webb was a career
Air Force officer who enlisted the day after
Pearl Harbor
and served during World War II. His wife Vera was the daughter of a share
cropper who lovingly followed her husband across the
United States
and around the world, raising the family's four children. The life of a
military man meant that Jim and his brother and sisters spent their early
life growing up on military posts and constantly changing schools, moving,
and making new friends.

The
lifestyle alone demanded an inner toughness and occasionally an outward
fighting spirit. Mr. and Mrs. Webb taught their children not to be trouble
makers, but also urged them to never be afraid to meet trouble head on and
beat it in the best Scots-Irish tradition of their ancestors. He would
ball up his fists and dare his sons to strike them, and to keep striking
in spite of the pain, building within an inner toughness. The boys learned
to stick up for themselves as well as for each other, and engaged in an
occasional scrap with their knuckles when necessary. Jim achieved the
toughness and a willingness to fight that his parents encouraged, and he
excelled with his fists both in the neighborhood where he was usually the
new kid on the block and also in the ring as a Golden Gloves boxer.

The
Webb boys grew up macho…Jim got his first gun at age eight and he and
his brother were taught by their father to enjoy the outdoors and outdoor
sports. Still, there remained a soft side as well. Although Jim
was not a boy who excelled at organized studies though he read a lot and
wrote poetry and short stories. When his father deployed for 3 years and
the family could not accompany him, young Jim slept with a picture of his
father in his World War II uniform. "I still keep it," he says
today, "to remind me of the sacrifices that my mother and others had
to make over and over again, as my father gladly served our country."

Mr.
Webb never pushed military service upon his children but he certainly
inspired in them a sense of duty. Young Jim dreamed early of a military
career and imagined himself some day wearing the stars of a Marine Corps
general on his shoulders. His personal hero was the legendary hero
of World War II and
Korea
, General Lewis "Chesty" Puller. His brother Gary eventually
also became a Marine Corps helicopter pilot, his sister Patricia married
into the Air Force, and sister Tama married Jim's
Naval
Academy
roommate. Theirs was truly a military family with strong feelings about
duty and the obligation to serve.

In
1962 after 26 years of night school, Jim's father, still in uniform,
graduated from the
University
of
Omaha
. He was the first member of his family to obtain a college degree and
went on to serve at Air Force Systems command through the Vietnam War and
then as a legislative affairs officer in the Pentagon before retiring as a
Colonel. The same year the elder Webb got his college degree, his son Jim
graduated from high school in
Bellevue
,
Nebraska
, and then enrolled in the
University
of
California
on an NROTC scholarship. The following year, 1964, Jim was admitted to the
U.S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis
,
Maryland
. His application listed thirty-three different home addresses in his
eighteen years of life.

Recalling
his first year at the Academy Webb said in an interview for PBS, "I
have classmates who I met 10 years after we got back from
Vietnam
. Everyone was talking about post traumatic stress and that sort of stuff.
And we'd sit down and we'd say, 'Do you have any nightmares about
Vietnam
?' And people go, 'No, but I still have nightmares about plebe year.'
"[i]
He describes the experience as tough and demanding, but necessary to
finding those who possessed true leadership ability. It was also a
trade-off in achieving the goals. He noted that he was pursuing a
mandatory engineering degree although he didn't really want to be an
engineer. But the successful achievement of what the military wanted him
to learn would pay off in what Jim Webb really wanted, the chance to lead
American combat forces in defense of their country.

Although
his father had become a vocal critic of the way Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara directed the war in
Vietnam
, prompting his own resignation partially in protest, young
Jim Webb had not developed an opinion on the rightness or wrongness of the
cause in
Vietnam
. "I had no political views when I went to
Vietnam
," he says. "I trusted the country's leadership. That was it. I
was just a 22-year-old guy trying to learn how to lead troops."[ii]
He studied the history of
Vietnam
while he also studied the nature of warfare. Regaled as a tough competitor
he was nicknamed "Spike" and boxed for the Varsity Team. He
served for all four years as a member of the Brigade Honor Committee and
was one of six finalists interviewed for Brigade Commander during his
senior year. He was one of 18 cadets in his class of 841 to receive the
Superintendent's Commendation for outstanding
leadership contributions.

Webb
graduated from the Naval Academy in the Spring of 1998 at a time during
which news reports from Vietnam were filled with stories of the massive
Tet Offensive only months earlier, and the battle for Khe Sanh only weeks
before when heavily outnumbered and surrounded Marines sustained a 77-day
siege. While most of his fellow cadets opted for commissions in the Navy,
Webb joined the minority that opted for commissions as U.S. Marine Corps
second lieutenants. Before deploying to
Vietnam
the following year he was required to attend the Marine Corps Officers'
Basic
School
in
Quantico
,
Virginia
, where he was first in his class of 243 officers.

In
Vietnam
Lieutenant Webb was assigned to a rifle platoon in Company D, 1st
Battalion, Fifth Marines, of the famed FIRST Marine Division. His Company
Commander, Captain Michael Wyly, made it a habit to check out his new
officers upon arrival to determine their ability to lead by immediately
assigning them to a combat mission. Recalling sending Webb on a patrol his
first night in the An Hoa Basin west of Danang, he said that unlike the
many other green young officers sent to him Webb showed no hesitation and
was eager to go. Later that night when he heard gunfire beyond the
perimeter Wyly figured his new platoon leader was probably dead but Webb
showed up back at the base camp eager for more fight.

Wyly
also came to appreciate an equally daring independence in his young
officer, a willingness to go against the grain and question orders rather
than simply blindly following them. Webb was not insubordinate but he was
insightful and willing to put forth his own opinion. "He had the guts
to come and say, 'Skipper, there might be a better way to do that,' "
he recalls.[iii]
Years later when Webb abruptly resigned as Secretary of the Navy in 1988
after clashes with Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, he remarked to
reporters, "It's no secret that I'm not a person who wears a bridle
well."[iv]
As an officer in the Marines or an appointee of government, Webb was a man
who did his duty but not without thinking, questioning, or offering a
better way if he had a good idea himself.

Combat
tested but could not break Lieutenant Webb. In a speech he called
"Heroes of the Vietnam Generation" Webb recalled, "We had
been told while in training that Marine officers in the rifle companies
had an 85 percent probability of being killed or wounded, and the
experience of "Dying Delta," as our company was known, bore that
out. Of the officers in the bush when I arrived, our company commander was
wounded, the weapons platoon commander was wounded, the first platoon
commander was killed, the second platoon commander was wounded twice, and
I, commanding the third platoon, was wounded twice. The enlisted troops in
the rifle platoons fared no better. Two of my original three squad leaders
were killed, the third shot in the stomach. My platoon sergeant was
severely wounded, as was my right guide. By the time I left my platoon I
had gone through six radio operators, five of them casualties."

Lieutenant
Webb epitomized the terms "warrior" and "leader" with
the very best characteristics of both. Perhaps however, his most defining
characteristic was his absolute loyalty to the men who served under him.
On
May 9, 1969
, Company D set up a night defensive position and six men from Lieutenant
Webb's platoon were sent 400 meters forward to set up a reconnaissance
position in a tree line. When the small recon force was attacked by a
large North Vietnamese Army force Lieutenant Webb organized a reaction
force and led they into the contact zone to the aid of him beleaguered
Marines. Under constant fire he rallied his men and led them one hundred
and fifty meters across an open rice paddy to recover several casualties
lying exposed directly in the line of enemy fire. Then, as his men laid
down a base of fire he personally raced into the open to pull back the
casualties one at a time. He then consolidated his platoon and launched a
sudden and vigorous attack that completely routed the enemy force. For his
actions he was awarded the Silver Star Medal which further noted,
"His determination and bold fighting spirit inspired all who observed
him and were instrumental in saving the lives of at least two Marines and
undoubtedly thwarting the enemy's plan to launch a major attack against
his unit's night position.

One
month later on July 10, Lieutenant Webb's platoon located a
well-camouflaged enemy bunker complex that they first thought was
unoccupied. Webb deployed his men in a defensive force and then personally
advanced on the first bunker, only to be suddenly confronted by three
enemy armed with grenades. Webb grabbed the closest enemy soldier and
brandished his .45 caliber pistol at the others, melting their will to
resist with his fierce and aggressive action and all three surrendered.

After
turning control of his prisoners over to others Webb and Mac McDowell, one
of his men, approached a second bunker, calling for the enemy within to
surrender. They refused and threw a grenade which landed dangerously close
to Webb. The lieutenant detonated a claymore mine in the aperture of the
bunker, killing the two enemy soldiers inside and exposing a tunnel.
Despite the smoke and debris from the explosion, and heedless of the
danger that other foes might be lurking inside, Webb conducted a search
and recovered equipment and several documents containing important
intelligence information.

Continuing
his advance on a third bunker, he was preparing to fire into it when the
hidden NVA threw a grenade out of it which landed close to Webb's comrade.
Simultaneously firing his weapon, he pushed his comrade aside and shielded
him from the explosion with his own body. Though wounded himself, Webb
threw one of his own grenades into the bunker and killed the occupants. He
was awarded the Purple Heart for his wounds and the Navy Cross, which is
second only to the Medal of Honor, for his heroism. When he returned home
after completing his combat tour he had added to these one more Purple
Heart and two Bronze Stars, making him the most highly-decorated graduate
of the
Naval
Academy
's Class of 1968.

Jim
Webb's dreams of a military career and a general's star were destroyed by
the wounds he received in
Vietnam
. He was medically discharged in 1972 to rebuild his life. Despite the
growing anti-war movement, he continued to be proud of his service.
Mackubin Thomas Owens, a Vietnam Veteran who is Associate Dean of
Academics for Electives and Directed Research and Professor of Strategy
and Force Planning at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island,
wrote of him: "What most endeared Webb to me and many others who
served in Vietnam was his unflinching defense of Vietnam veterans against
the slanderous charges that have been leveled against them: dopehead,
baby-killer, war criminal...you remember. Webb is the man who time and
again stood on the front lines of the culture war that still rages between
those who served during the
Vietnam
era and those who didn't, a culture war that played a major role in the
recent election. He could always be counted on to stand up to the elites
who peddled falsehoods about
Vietnam
veterans."[v]

Webb
enrolled for classes at
Georgetown
University
's law school where he received his Juris Doctor in 1975. As an attorney
he provided pro bono services to other veterans, including the defense of
one Black Marine who was convicted of atrocities. Even after that Marine
took his own life in 1975, Webb continued his work until in 1978 the man's
name was finally cleared. Also in 1978 Webb's first book was published. Fields
of Fire is considered to be the classic novel of the Vietnam War, of
which the Houston Post wrote:
"Few writers since Stephen Crane have portrayed men at war with such
a ring of steely truth." It was perhaps that striking ring of steely
truth and the unapologetic realism of Webb's portrayal that made the book
a best-seller and a must read for every Vietnam Veteran or, for that
matter for all veterans.

It
was in 1977 that James Webb converted to the Republican Party. Earlier he
had not had strong leanings to either side, though the roots of his family
caused him to identify with the working class elements of the Democratic
Party. He was disillusioned after returning from Vietnam to witness an
anti-war movement largely tied to his party, but his "lot was
cast" to the GOP on January 21, 1977, when on the second day of his
Presidency Jimmy Carter fulfilled his campaign promise to pardon all who
had dodged the Vietnam War Draft. "It was the last straw," Webb
has said. "There had never been an amnesty program in history that
gave blanket pardons to everyone. There were a lot of people back from
Vietnam
who kept trying to identify with the Democratic Party and it was like they
didn’t want us."[vi]

The
following year and until 1981 Webb served as Republican Counsel to the
House Committee on Veterans Affairs. This was during the same period in
which efforts were undertaken to design and build a memorial to veterans
of the Vietnam War. When the design for what is now simply known as
"The Wall" was introduced, Webb was among those who objected to
the selected design that underwent nearly a full year of controversy. Webb
did not object to a memorial to the war dead from Vietnam, but he wanted
the memorial to also remember the sacrifices of the living…men like Dale
Wilson who had lost both legs and an arm while serving with Webb in
Vietnam but who had survived to return home to a hostile welcome.

In
a compromise move that expedited completion of The Wall it was determined
that a statue would be added at a later date. In 1982 the design for that
statue was expanded to include the images of three (not just one) men, one
white, one black, and one Hispanic. Webb was one of the leaders in the
efforts to insure that it was a multi-racial memorial to all who served.
His own combat boots became the mold for the statue and The Wall remains a
poignant symbol to the man who once opposed it. Nearly every year Webb
reunites with his former comrades, visits graves of fallen comrades at
Arlington
National
Cemetery
, and often leave a pack of Marlboro cigarettes for his buddy, Snake.[vii]

In
1980 Webb's conversion to the GOP was cemented when candidate Ronald
Reagan spoke of the Vietnam War as a "noble cause." Fifteen
years earlier in support of that effort Reagan had noted, "We should
declare war on
North Vietnam
. . . .We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and
still be home by Christmas." President Ronald Reagan restored a sense
of pride, patriotism, and appreciation for members of the military from
all generations, and in doing so endeared himself forever to Webb as a
mentor and role model. In 1984 Webb was appointed as Reagan's Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. In 1987 Reagan appointed Webb to
become the 18th Secretary of the Navy.*
He was the first Naval Academy Graduate to serve in the military before
holding that civilian post.

As
Secretary of the Navy, Webb was concerned with the deterioration of the
services in the aftermath of a divisive and unpopular war. He pushed for a
bigger and better Navy and Marine Corps at a time when the official policy
was cutting the military force. On
November 23, 1987
, Frank C. Carlucci replaced Caspar Weinberger as Secretary of Defense and
he and Webb clashed over reducing or increasing the size of the Navy. In
frustration, only ten months after assuming his position, Jim Webb
resigned. The formal delivery of his resignation is indicative of the
fighting spirit of the man, even in a lost cause. He respectfully mailed
his resignation to President Reagan, whom he admired, but flippantly left
Frank Carlucci's copy on the desk of one of his aides. His departure
marked the beginning of his return once again to the Democrat Party,
though in a little recognized fashion at that time.

Over
the years that followed Webb returned to writing, and to date has
published eight books, six of which became best sellers. His Senate
biography notes that he taught literature at the
Naval
Academy
as their first visiting writer, traveled worldwide as a journalist, and
earned an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences for his PBS coverage of the U.S. Marines in
Beirut
. In 2004, he went into
Afghanistan
as a journalist, embedded with the
U.S.
military. He has also worked in
Hollywood
as a screenwriter and producer.

While
it seems politics was far from Webb's plans, it was something he could
never avoid. In 1992 he supported
Vietnam
veteran Senator Robert Kerry's bid for the Democratic Presidential
nomination. Two years later in an off-year election Webb's former
Naval
Academy
classmate Oliver North challenged incumbent Democrat Senator Chuck Robb.
Both men were former Marines and both had served in
Vietnam
--solid credentials in Jim Webb's view. But North cast suspicion upon the
service of Robb, claiming that because he was married to President Lyndon
Johnson's daughter Lynda, Robb had received preferential treatment and
served only light duty. Such attacks against any veteran angered Webb who
threw his endorsement to Robb. Even so, veteran status or party
affiliation was not enough alone to elicit Webb's political support. Six
years later in Webb endorsed Republican George Allen when he successfully
challenged Robb's seat and, when Allen ran for a second term in 2006 Webb
himself challenged the incumbent and won his seat.

If
the changes in the man who went himself from Democrat to Republican and
then returned to his Democrat roots, who supported Robb one year and then
endorsed his Republican opponent before thereafter unseating him as a
Democrat make Jim Webb appear inconsistent, it is most likely for failure
to look close enough. Jim Webb walks a tightrope between what he perceived
as duty and obligation--and a special sense of loyalty to veterans. Webb
was the pro-Vietnam War veteran who editorialized that, "(Senator
John) Kerry deserves condemnation for his activities as the leader of
Vietnam Veterans Against the War…(he) went far beyond simply criticizing
the politics of the war to repeatedly and dishonestly misrepresenting the
service of Vietnam veterans and the positive feelings most felt after
serving."[viii]

Webb
himself had once refused to even shake Kerry's hand and yet with insight
he continued to note, as he put his support behind the Massachusetts
Senator's 2006 bid for the Presidency, "Kerry's negatives, however,
do not automatically become (President George W.) Bush's positives."[ix]
Furthermore, while Webb understood the animosity many veterans felt for
John Kerry as a result of his anti-war activism, even identifying with
them, when unfair attacks were leveled at Senator Kerry's awards and the
nature of his service was called into question, he found such dirty tricks
deplorable. In another op/ed piece he wrote: "In recent years
extremist Republican operatives have inverted a longstanding principle:
that our combat veterans be accorded a place of honor in political
circles. This trend began with the ugly insinuations leveled at Senator
John McCain during the 2000 Republican primaries and continued with the
slurs against Senators Max Cleland and John Kerry, and now Mr.
Murtha."[x]

Perhaps
Webb's own thinking was best defined during a 2006 Campaign stop when he
met the father of Donald Ryan McGlothlin, a Marine Second Lieutenant who
was killed in
Iraq
on
November 16, 2005
. McGlothlin's father explained that his son had supported the war in
Afghanistan
but opposed expanding it to
Iraq
. Before deploying he had told his father, "I would never vote for
George Bush, but I'd take a bullet for him."[xi]

Such
sentiment seemed not the least ambiguous to Jim Webb who had opposed the
war in
Iraq
from the beginning. While campaigning for George Allen's Senate seat, Webb
missed one of
Virginia
's most important political events, the Labor Day parade and associated
activities. While his opposition in one of the nation's tightest Senate
races worked the crowd, Jim Web was driving down the Interstate to
transport his son, Lance Corporal James R. Webb to the Marine Corps post
at
Camp Lejeune
,
North Carolina
. Two years earlier Jimmy, as the younger son is called, left his studies
at
Penn
State
to enlist and follow in the footsteps of his father, his uncle, and his
grandfather.

During
the week before his deployment to
Iraq
with the Sixth Marine Division, Jimmy and his father were joined by José
Ramirez, a former marine who is the boyfriend of Jimmy’s sister Sarah,
and Dale Wilson, the triple-amputee from his father's platoon. Just before
the departure of the transport bus that was taking the marines to the
airfield from which they would leave for
Kuwait
, Jimmy and his father and their friends gathered in the parking lot. Webb
had filled a Coke bottle with whiskey, which he poured into four cups. The
three older men raised their cups to Jimmy, who offered the final toast:
"To those who went before me. And to those who didn’t come
back……

*
In 1992 former Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor Recipient Robert Kerrey
had an unsuccessful bid for his party's nomination and former Navy
Pilot and POW Republican Senator John McCain was a serious contender
in the 2000 election. Not to be ignored is former POW and Medal of
Honor Recipient Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale who was a third-party
candidate with Ross Perot in the 2000 election.

*
Prior to establishment of the Department of Defense in 1947, Secretary
of the Navy was a Cabinet position that was held by 47 different men
from 1798 to 1947.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The authors extend our thanks to the following who granted personal
interviews for this work: Roger Donlon (MOH), Robin Moore,
Don Bendell, Jimmy Stanford, Vince Yrineo, Sammy L. Davis (MOH),
Linda Alvarado, Karen Offutt, Lieutenant General Carol Mutter, Sir
Edward Artis, General Colin L. Powell, Katharine Houghton, Adrian
Cronauer, Jan Scruggs, Delbert Schmeling, and Peter Lemon (MOH).Our thanks to the staff of the following who either wrote or
allowed reprint of their own works for this book: Dr.
Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, Don Bendell, Congressman Sam Farr,
Congressman Thomas Petri, Congressman Mike Honda, Congressman Jim
Walsh, Governor Jim Doyle, and Scott Baron.Our special thanks also to the staff of the following who provided
information and fact-checked the chapters related to their
subject: Staff of Senator John Kerry, Staff of (then) Senator
Hillary Clinton, Staff of Senator Jim Webb
A SPECIAL THANKS also to Dr. Marguerite Guzman Bouvard for his
assistance in writing and editing the entire section on the Role of
the Sexes.